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PUP

city: Toronto
country: Canada
genre: Rock
styles: Alternative Emo, Canadian Indie, Canadian Pop Punk, Canadian Punk, Indie Punk, Indie Rock, Toronto Indie

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Robot Writes A Love Song

out on January 18, 2022

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THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND is our favourite record we’ve ever made. We recorded it holed up in this big old American Horror Story mansion in Connecticut owned by our friend / producer Peter Katis. We were there for 5 weeks, living together, making the record at all hours, not really leaving the house except to get groceries. As the weeks passed, we seemed less and less rational, objective, and sane. You can hear the band start to fall off the cliff, and because of that, I think this record is our truest and most genuine to date. There is nothing more PUP than a slow and inevitable descent into self-destruction. We can’t wait for you to hear it. It’s a complete disaster in the best way.

The album cover was created by Jordan Speer, who is, in equal parts, incredibly talented and incredibly insane.

The video was directed by our new pal Whitey McConnaughy. He originally pitched the concept to Lil Jon for his smash hit “Bend Ova” (not even joking) but the thing fell apart in the 11th hour so we snagged it and Lil Jon was like “WHAT!” and now HERE WE ARE! Thank you Whitey!

A little about the song: For a long time we’ve been trying to write a song that nails this balance between truly sincere heartfelt emotion and complete idiocy. And I think we’ve finally done it. I have really fond memories of recording this song. I made this really bare bones / shitty demo, and then everyone else started adding these crazy layers and turned it into something really special. I remember Steve playing the guitar riff and Nestor kept saying “make it sound shittier” which is pretty incredible because usually we don’t need any help sounding like shit. We ended up with this pretty awesome but kinda janky sounding demo. Peter, who produced our record, had this idea to use big chunks of the demo in the final studio version to keep that lo-fi trash-magic alive. A bunch of the vocals you hear on the song (including the backups) were recorded in 10 minutes in the backseat of my car, using a shitty mic plugged directly into my laptop. Had I known they would make the album version, I probably would’ve tried a little harder.